Shade-bracket.



' PATENTED OCT. 8, 1907. v

W. A. BENNETT. SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION IILBD DEG-18, 190B.

WILLIAM A. BENNETT, OF ENTERPRISE, WEST VIRGINIA.

SHADE-BRACKET Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1907.

Application filed December 18, 1906. $erial No- 348,461.

To all whom it may concern:

\ Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. BENNETT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Enterprise, in the county of Harrison, State of WestVirginia, have invent- 5 ed certain new and useful Improvements inShade- Brackets; and I do hereby declare the following to be r a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to shade brackets, and has for its object toprovide a novel form of shade bracket which may be adjusted to-supportvarious lengths of curtain rollers.

Broadly stated, the invention relates to that class of shade bracketswhich are formed of a pair of slotted strips of sheet metal which areprovided at certain of their ends with roller supporting members.The'principal diiiiculty encountered in devices of this class, however,is that the screws which are engaged through the slots in the strips andinto the window frame, are liable to become sufficiently loosened topermit the roller to drop. Quite a few rack devices have been devised toavoid lateral displacement of the strips but these devices mustnecessarily be so complicated as to render their use impracticable. Inorder to overcome this objectionable feature, I crimp the strips at theedges of the slots and in this manner the strips are held againstmovement after being once adjusted.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a view O in elevation of myinvention in use, Fig. 2 is a detail the shade-supporting members isshown as comprising a strip 5 of sheet metal which has one of its endsbent forwardly at right angles as at 6, the said portion 6 of eachmember being provided with an opening in which are engaged the rollerspindles (not shown).

Each of the strips 5 is provided with a longitudinally extending slot 7and through the slot and into the window frame are engaged screws 8,there being a pair of these screws designed to support each of theshade-supporting members. In order that the brackets may be removed atany time without the necessity of removing the screws, the edges of theslot 7 are cut away at corresponding points as indicated at 9, the saidcut-away portions being so located that the screws 8 may havesimultaneous passage therethrough, it being understood, of course, thatthe slot is sufiiciently enlarged by being thus cut away to permit ofpassage of the heads of the screws.

' It has been found in devices ofthis class that the strips graduallyseparate and allow the shade roller to drop and in order to overcomethis feature, the strip, at opposite edges of the slot, is crimped as at10, it being understood that the head of each screw 8 is received

